Former Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp has been named among several other high-profile sports stars as one of the authors nominated for this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.

Bergkamp, now a youth academy coach at Ajax has been nominated for his autobiography ‘Stillness and Speed: My Story’, along with Paris Saint-Germain star Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s book ‘I Am Zlatan’ and London 2012 chief Lord Coe for his popular book ‘Running My Life’.

Other famous names in the sports industry, such as Jimmy Connors and Katherine Grainger, have also seen their books ‘The Outsider: My Autobiography’ and ‘Dreams Do Come True: The Autobiography’ put forward for the award.

And the co-founder of the award, Graham Sharpe feels the quality of the titles will make it a difficult decision for judges to choose a winner.

He said: "As befits the 25th anniversary of the world's undisputed finest award for sports books and their authors, I do not believe we have previously seen a year produce such an abundance of top quality titles.

"The judges face their toughest task yet in initially creating a short-list and then deciding on a winner - which will have beaten a classic field to be declared champion."

Duncan Hamilton, writer of ‘Immortal: The Approved Biography of George Best’, has won the award twice before and is again nominated for this year’s competition. The announcement of the winner will be made on November 27 after the list is narrowed down on October 25, with the author who finishes in first place picking up a prize of £25,000.